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Google and Oracle are headed to the Supreme Court. The future of software hangs in the balance.
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 8, 2020

Oct. 8, 2020

Google and Oracle are headed to the Supreme Court. The future of software hangs in the balance. A generation of software built around shared assumptions for interoperability faces an uncertain future depending on the outcome of a yearslong legal fight between Google and Oracle. Tom Krazit https://www.protocol.com/google-oracle-supreme-court-software-api (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYT: "12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 7, 2020

Oct. 7, 2020

*12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google* /Lawmakers said they found multiple problems with each of the four giant tech companies./ By Mike Isaac, Steve Lohr, Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/amazon-apple-facebook-google-…

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Registro degli algoritmi di decisione automatica della città di Nantes
by Antonio Vetro' Oct. 7, 2020

Oct. 7, 2020

https://data.nantesmetropole.fr/pages/algorithmes_nantes_metropole/ Al momento ci sono il codice e la documentazione di due sistemi che sono usati per “decisioni sugli individui automatizzate”. A.

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Exchange Graveyard
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Not all exchanges can live forever. Some have been exposed as frauds, some have been the victims of hacker attacks and some have just disappeared. The below list is our Exchange Graveyard, listing exchanges that have died during the last two years. Rest in Peace. https://www.cryptowisser.com/exchange-graveyard/ Giacomo

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Amazon puts out call for gig workers to pick orders at Whole Foods
by Luigi Scorca Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-puts-out-call-for-gig-workers-to-pi… Amazon usa i fattorini per prendere gli ordini "food" dai negozi fisici e portarli a destinazione dai clienti... Luigi

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NYTimes: Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/business/economy/seattle-uber-lyft-drive… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?
by Federico Guerrini Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Ciao, qualche considerazione attinente alla discussione di poco tempo fa su questa lista: "Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski seems to frame “ethical” platform design <https://theconversation.com/ethical-design-is-the-answer-to-some-of-social-…> as the antidote. While this is an important consideration, it’s not a complete answer. And this framing is one of several issues in The Social Dilemma’s approach.Ethical design considers the moral consequences of the design choices in a platform. It is design made with the intent to ‘do good’. Shutterstock The program also relies uncritically on interviews with former tech executives, who apparently never realised the consequences of manipulating users for monetary gain. It propagates the Silicon Valley fantasy they were just innocent geniuses wanting to improve the world (despite ample evidence <https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relati…> to the contrary <https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-50m-facebook-users-data/>). As tech policy expert Maria Farell suggests, these retired “prodigal tech bros <https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/>”, who are now safely insulated from consequences, are presented as the moral authority. Meanwhile, the digital rights and privacy activists who have worked for decades to hold them to account are largely omitted from view." (...) In the long run, stemming the flow of personal data to digital platforms will also need legislative change. While legislation can’t fix everything, it can encourage systemic change. In Australia, we need stronger data privacy protections, preferably in the form of blanket legislative protection such as the General Data Protection Regulation implemented in Europe <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/news/general-data-protection-regulation-G…> in 2018." https://theconversation.com/netflixs-the-social-dilemma-highlights-the-prob… Ciao, Federico

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Apathy, convenience or irrelevance?
by Giuseppe Attardi Oct. 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

The bigger threat of corporate surveillance and data profiling practices is its ability to usurp individual agency and self-determination through its predictive functions which pre- determine opportunities, not only consumer choices, but individual access to a range of opportunities such as access to finance, insurance, education, work, social connection, knowledge and interests, thereby determining life outcomes for us. > https://www.socialresearchnz.com/post/apathy-convenience-or-irrelevance-ide… <https://www.socialresearchnz.com/post/apathy-convenience-or-irrelevance-ide…>

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John Pilger: "EYEWITNESS TO THE TRIAL AND AGONY OF JULIAN ASSANGE"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

John Pilger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger jc ----- *EYEWITNESS TO THE TRIAL AND AGONY OF JULIAN ASSANGE* 2 October 2020 /John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia:// / *Q: Having watched Julian Assange's trial first-hand, can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court?* The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge. Putting aside the ritual associated with 'British justice', at times it has been evocative of a Stalinist show trial. One difference is that in the show trials, the defendant stood in the court proper. In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers. His message, whispered barely audibly through face masks, WAS then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an American hellhole. Consider this daily routine of Julian Assange, an Australian on trial for truth-telling journalism. He was woken at five o'clock in his cell at Belmarsh prison in the bleak southern sprawl of London. The first time I saw Julian in Belmarsh, having passed through half an hour of 'security' checks, including a dog's snout in my rear, I found a painfully thin figure sitting alone wearing a yellow armband. He had lost more than 10 kilos in a matter of months; his arms had no muscle. His first words were: 'I think I am losing my mind'. [...] continua qui: http://johnpilger.com/articles/eyewitness-to-the-trial-and-agony-of-julian-…

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[SAVE THE DATE] Per iscriversi a "Unboxing AI" (conferenza online 5-7 nov. 2020)
by casilli Oct. 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

Dear all, Sono lieto di annunciare che le iscrizioni a Unboxing AI sono ufficialmente aperte. La conferenza, interamente online a causa della situazione sanitaria, è co-organizzata da Fondazione Feltrinelli, Nexa e INDL (International Network on Digital Labor). Fra gli speakers: Nick Couldry (LSE), Leopoldina Fortunati (U. Udine), Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford), Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA), Janine Berg (ILO), Alessandro Delfanti (Toronto). La partecipazione è gratuita, ma è necessario registrarsi. Troverete il programma e i link per iscriversi su questa pagina web: https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/eventi/unboxing-ai-understanding-artificia… <https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/eventi/unboxing-ai-understanding-artificia…> (NB: ci sono tre link, uno per ognuna delle tre date della conferenza). Spero che questo evento sia di vostro interesse e vi incoraggio a condividere questo annuncio il più largamente possibile con i vostri contatti email, whatsapp, o sui social, soprattutto con giovani ricercatori e studenti. Cheers, Antonio Program In association with: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli <https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/> INDL International Network on Digital Labour <http://endl.network/indl/> NEXA Center for Internet & Society <https://nexa.polito.it/> ISRF Independent Social Research Foundation <https://www.isrf.org/> The sessions will be held entirely in English Thursday November 5th, 2020 3.00 pm – Opening keynote Janine Berg (ILO) – Automation and Artificial Intelligence at work 4.00 pm Andrea Miconi (IULM) – Digital Surplus. From Marx to the web 5.00 pm Nick Couldry (LSE) & Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY) – Data colonialism. Big data and contemporary subjectivity 6.00 pm Phoebe Moore (Leicester) – Who makes Artificial Intelligence: AI trainers behind the dream Chair Ivana Pais (Università Cattolica, Milan) Register here <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SaS2-EV7RHuWcmmDVinQvQ> Friday November 6th, 2020 3.00 pm Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine) – Mediating the human body in AI creation 4.00 pm Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto) – Boxing AI at Amazon fulfillment centres 5.00 pm Baruch Gottlieb (University of Arts, Berlin) – Digital materialism. A materialist understanding of digital technologies Chair Antonio Santangelo (University of Turin) 6.00 pm – Closing keynote Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford) – Automating HR: new liabilities, new worker protections Register here <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9WYsd5bkRZyMo9Gv6qVSgg> Saturday November 7th, 2020 3.00 pm PhD Symposium Session 1 Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Seeing like a platform Kai-Hsin Hung (HEC Montreal) – Data workers in India Idil Galip (U.niversity of Edinburgh) – Digital patronage Discussant Juan Carlos De Martin (Polytechnic University of Turin) 4.30 pm – In conversation with Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) – Moderating Internet in a Pandemic 5.30PM – PhD Symposium Session 2 Lou Brandner (University of Rome La Sapienza) – Freelance Creative Labour Saverio Minardi (University of Trento) – Labor replacing technologies and labor market inequalities Jonathan Gruber (University of Zurich) – Algorithmic skills for digital labour Discussant Andrea Fumagalli (University of Pavia) Register here <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lXN0INeTXC6igd9BLu54w> -- Antonio A. Casilli Professor, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society *We respect your right to disconnect. This email send time is due to my own workflow efficiency. You are in no obligation to take action or reply to it outside your office hours.*

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